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Hands-On Visual Studio 2022

By : Miguel Angel Teheran Garcia, Hector Uriel Perez Rojas
Book Image

Hands-On Visual Studio 2022

By: Miguel Angel Teheran Garcia, Hector Uriel Perez Rojas

Overview of this book

Visual Studio 2022 is the complete and ideal integrated development environment (IDE) for creating large, complex, and scalable applications. It is one of the most complete tools available for development, especially with Microsoft technologies. This book will teach you how to take advantage of the tools available with this IDE to write clean code faster. You’ll begin by learning how to set up and start Visual Studio 2022 and how to use all the tools provided by this IDE. You will then explore key combinations, tips, and additional utilities that can help you to code faster and review your code constantly. Next, you will see how to compile, debug, and inspect your project to analyze its current behavior using Visual Studio. The book also shows you how to insert reusable blocks of code writing simple statements. Later, you will learn about visual aids and artificial intelligence that will help you improve productivity and understand what is going on in the project. By the end of this book, you will be able to set up your development environment using Visual Studio 2022, personalize the tools and layout, and use shortcuts and extensions to improve your productivity.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: Visual Studio Overview
7
Part 2: Tools and Productivity
13
Part 3: GitHub Integration and Extensions

New icons and styles

New icons and styles were added in Visual Studio 2022. Although this is a simple feature, it helps us to navigate easily in an application, using visual elements and identifying actions and tools properly. For instance, in Figure 3.2, you can see the broom icon (row one, column five) has better contrast, with a new vibrant yellow color (specifically for a dark theme) and a modern design. It also implies that a code cleanup will be executed. The broom icon is used to execute code cleanup to fix code formatting:

Figure 3.2 – Icons in Visual Studio 2022 versus 2019

Important Note

An interesting fact about the new icons in Visual Studio 2022 is that the Visual Studio development team worked with the developer community to fulfill three purposes – consistency, readability, and familiarity. This resulted in a series of icons with the same meaning but with consistent colors, sharp contrast, and a recognizable silhouette.

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